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Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact.

Abstract

A new study shows that rooks are able to spontaneously drop stones into a tube of water to obtain a floating worm. This sophisticated problem solving raises intriguing questions about the use of imagination in animals.

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Year: 2009 PMID： 19665378 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.055

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834

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1. An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions.

Authors: Alex H Taylor; Brenna Knaebe; Russell D Gray
Journal: Proc Biol Sci Date: 2012-10-24 Impact factor: 5.349

2. Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop's Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning.

Authors: Laura Hennefield; Hyesung G Hwang; Sara J Weston; Daniel J Povinelli
Journal: Anim Cogn Date: 2018-08-21 Impact factor: 3.084

3. Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention.

Authors: Alex H Taylor; Lucy G Cheke; Anna Waismeyer; Andrew N Meltzoff; Rachael Miller; Alison Gopnik; Nicola S Clayton; Russell D Gray
Journal: Proc Biol Sci Date: 2014-06-11 Impact factor: 5.349

Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact.

1. An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions.

2. Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop's Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning.

3. Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention.

4. Investigating animal cognition with the Aesop's Fable paradigm: Current understanding and future directions.

5. Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows.

6. How Insightful Is 'Insight'? New Caledonian Crows Do Not Attend to Object Weight during Spontaneous Stone Dropping.

7. Modifications to the Aesop's Fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances.

8. Dogs learn to solve the support problem based on perceptual cues.

9. Young children do not require perceptual-motor feedback to solve Aesop's Fable tasks.

Review 10. Macphail's Null Hypothesis of Vertebrate Intelligence: Insights From Avian Cognition.